Daily Archives: May 2, 2013

One of the most powerful techniques a photographer has is isolating the sharpest part of the scene to draw the eye of the viewer in!  The eye seeks; sharpness, brightness, and warmth.  If you can use those three key ingredients,  you can bring the viewer’s eye directly to what you want them to see!  As illustrated below, the area of sharpness is a very thin line in the image, but that is where your attention was drawn!!

 

 

In the image below we have the opposite example and image that is sharp from the foregorund to Infiniti, and therefore the entire scene is the subject!

 

 

I can’t emphasize it enough, depth tells the story……

 

How deep are you?  Is your surface, what really lies beneath?  Hey hold it, I’m not accusing, I’m facing the same question myself.  Have you ever looked in the mirror and stared deeply into your own eyes and answered that question.  It’s a tough one!

 

The beginning of the journey to depth in a life is the recognition of just how shallow we can be.  I hope you don’t see in the mirror what I have seen.  The closer your walk with the Lord the more you see just how much further you have to go.  But, that’s O.K. that is how He grows us up, how He prepares us for what He has in store for us.  Facing the reality of our depth is a hard process, but gaining depth, is well, the only way to continue the walk and bring glory to Him.  No matter how bad things look in the mirror, He only sees the Heart He has already redeemed!

 

Thank you father for forgiveness and grace…..

 

the pilgrim

 

 

Technical Note:  50mm f 1.4 lens at f2.8.